Mental Toughness 🧏🏾‍♂️💪🏾 . . . When it comes to life, running, or anything challenging for the matter; mental toughness is key. Mental Toughness is a personality trait that determines your ability to perform consistently under stress and pressure, and is closely related to qualities such as character, resilience, grit and perseverance. Mental Toughness isn’t being macho or uncaring or self-centred – it’s about being tough in the sense of not giving up and being confident that you can prevail, even if the odds are stacked against you. Bro and I have had this conversation several times about how pledging our fraternities in undergrad trained our minds on how to separate the physical from the mental. There’s several sports like Martial Arts, Yoga, Boxing, Football, Basketball, etc that teach you these same concepts. The ability to take your mind to another place while pushing difficult paces when it’s extreme discomfort allows you to zone out in a sense that the physical pain of i...